Word: leaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chamberlain's Leap...
TIME'S editors, bemused by gout, evidently have never leapt walls. In your issue of Jan. 17 you show a picture of Britain's gaitered Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain "leaping" a stone wall. Look more closely. There is a ladder in the right-hand corner. Mr. Chamberlain has climbed up the ladder and is now gingerly stepping off. He is going to land stiff-legged at that. He will probably wryly agree that a leap should be goaty, not gouty...
Five hundred milligrams of nicotine, if taken in one dose, are fatal. Anyone who smokes a package of cigarets a day breathes in 500 milligrams of nicotine every week. Whether this gradual dosage does harm may be debatable, but few are the smokers who would not leap at a chance to avoid nicotine as long as the method did not involve giving up smoking. On sale last week in United Cigar Stores, Liggett Drug Stores, Schulte Cigar Stores and many a hotel in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles was a device making such a boon to smokers...
...Landon observed that the President has delayed social progress by insisting on the passage of readymade laws which, after trial, prove to be of inferior workmanship, his statement was accurate and supported by cogent illustrations from recent history. The NRA was the most distressing example of Mr. Roosevelt's leap-before-you-look policy, and accounted for two years of confusion and wasted time in the national economy. The Wagner Act and the Social Security Act, also, are poorly-drafted laws which must be done over if they are to be made workable. But remodeling takes time--and it would...
Homer Martin, slim, bespectacled head of the United Automobile Workers, is a preacher by training, and after he won the national hop, step & jump championship at 22 he was invariably called the "Leaping Parson." From the Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City, where the deacons thought his labor gospel somewhat apocryphal, he leaped to a Chevrolet assembly line, then to leadership of a Kansas City local and finally in one tremendous leap to the front of C.I.O.'s noisiest, most turbulent union. Last week President Martin found himself in a spot from which he could...